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Issue Details

Issue #90
Published November 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in August 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Orggo, the Unconquerable!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Klein
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

7 page story "Orggo...the Unconquerable!"

Characters Orrgo (introduction); Jo-Jo
Synopsis An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Orrgo or a character based on him next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #9 (November 2001).
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971); in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #4 (March 1994)

2 page text story "Special Sale"

Characters Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
Synopsis When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (August 1956)

6 page story "A Thousand Years Later..."

Characters Adam; Eve
Synopsis A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated. When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman, leaving only the two of them, Adam and Eve, to restart civilization.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck, from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (December 1958).
Reprinted in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #8

5 page story "The Inhuman!"

Characters X-35
Synopsis In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

5 page story "Germ Warfare"

Characters John Marshall; Molitis germ
Synopsis A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat. The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs, but an atomic test destroys it.
Genre monsters
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (December 1966)